• DOI:10.1080/00358530600931178
Corpus ID: 153980559

Unitary state, devolution, autonomy, secession: State building and nation building in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

@article{Ghai2006UnitarySD,
  title={Unitary state, devolution, autonomy, secession: State building and nation building in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea},
  author={Y. Ghai and A. Regan},
  journal={The Round Table},
  year={2006},
  volume={95},
  pages={589 - 608}
}

• Y. Ghai, A. Regan
• Published 2006
• Sociology
• The Round Table

Abstract This paper compares the experience of two main attempts to accommodate secessionist pressures in Bougainville, a sub-national island unit of Papua New Guinea (PNG). In 1976 constitutionally based devolution was established on a largely uniform basis for Bougainville and PNG's 18 other provinces. A 2001 agreement to end a secessionist war has resulted in constitutionally guaranteed asymmetrical autonomy and a right to a deferred referendum on independence for Bougainville. The paper… Expand

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